Case Study
Retrofit Existing Boilers To Meet Low Nox Emissions Requirements
BOILER DIVISION CASE STUDY UC Davis Medical Center Sacramento, California Boiler Retrofit CUSTOMER APPLICATION AND KEY CHALLENGES The UC Davis Medical Center serves 6 million residents in 33 counties encom- passing 65,000 square miles in Northern and Central California. The acute-care, teaching hospital is licensed for 613 beds and maintains an annual budget of roughly $1 billion. The hospital used their boilers for sterilization, domestic hot water and heating applications within the facility. They were operating four boilers: two Johnston 750 HP High Pressure, Dual Fuel (natural gas and #2 oil) Boilers that operated at 150 PSI and two Johnston 750 HP Low Pressure, Dual Fuel (natural gas and #2 oil) Boilers that operated at less than 15 PSI. Under the new Sacramento Metro